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  2. Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill - Wikipedia

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    The Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill was drafted to give Members of Parliament three options on which to vote. Option 1 would retain the ban for prisoners jailed for over four years. Option 2 would retain the ban for prisoners jailed for over six months. Option 3 would retain the current ban with minor amendments.

  3. Elections in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    In 2021, the Conservative government proposed that the voting system for English mayoral and English and Welsh Police and Crime Commissioner elections be reverted to the first-past-the-post system. These elections currently use the supplementary vote system, in which the winner requires at least 50%+1 of the votes after preferences to win.

  4. Elections in England - Wikipedia

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    The three electoral systems used for elections in England are: first-past-the-post (for UK elections and local elections, though individual local authorities are able to move to STV under recent legislation), the additional member system (for Mayor and London Assembly elections) and the supplementary vote (for Police and Crime Commissioner ...

  5. Elections in the Kingdom of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Members of Parliament needed to appeal to a much smaller electorate than is the case today, especially in the boroughs. In the case of the rotten and pocket boroughs, a majority of the votes was usually controlled by one person, or by a small group. This gave less power to organized political parties and more to influential individuals, some of ...

  6. Reform Acts - Wikipedia

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    After the War, women were granted voting rights with cross-party unanimity in the Act of 1918, the Fourth Reform Act, which enfranchised all men aged over 21 and women over 30. This last piece of gender discrimination was eliminated 10 years later by the Equal Franchise Act 1928 , the Fifth Reform Act, passed by the Conservatives.

  7. Representation of the People Act 1969 - Wikipedia

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    Long title: An Act to amend the law about the qualification of electors at elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom or at local government elections in Great Britain, and the qualification for election to and membership of local authorities in England and Wales, about the conduct of and manner of voting at those elections and about candidates' election expenses thereat, and otherwise ...

  8. John London (victualler) - Wikipedia

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    London's vote was one of those challenged at the hearing in 1750; [1] voting was restricted to British, male ratepayers, over the age of 21. [3] London had only recently moved into his property on One Tun Alley, but the parish's "overseer of the poor", Mr Rybot, was able to testify that he had paid his rates in September 1749, thereby ...

  9. Representation of the People Act 1918 - Wikipedia

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    Rolf, David, ‘The origins of Mr. Speaker’s conference during the First World War’, History, vol. 64, no. 210 (1979), pp. 36-46; Tanner, Duncan, ‘The Parliamentary electoral system, the Fourth Reform Act, and the rise of Labour in England’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, vol. 56 (1983), 205-219